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From: whit@milton.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: help interpreting kwh meter
Summary: Thanks to FDR, hydroelectric power is cheap in the northwest
Message-ID: <5585@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 23:29:42 GMT
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In article <3888@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>In article <5928@videovax.tv.tek.com>, bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) writes:
>> 
>> Actually, our power is about $0.035 per KWH up to 300 KWH and $0.043 above
>> that, so your figures are about two times too high.
>
>	You don't know how lucky you are.  How about this, as taken from a
>recent New York State Electric and Gas Corp. bill?
>
>	First 350 kwh	@ $ 0.118618
>	Next  670 kwh	@ $ 0.105216
>
        Thanks in part to the Columbia river's many prime hydroelectric
dam sites, in Seattle, our bills come out like:

        First 290 kwh   @  .0207
        Next  564 kwh   @  .0333

        * amounts billed include state utility tax at the rate of 3.852 and
Seattle occupation tax at the rate of 6.600

	So, the local utility is charging about nine-tenths of the above
amount for electricity (and the anti-business and occupation tax soaks up
most of the tithe).
	Rates vary seasonally; during heating season, the rate topped
out at .0503 (presumably, dollars per kilowatt-hour).

		John Whitmore